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Refueinu.
TCG: Right. I’m sure you were receptive about the criticism of being a vegetarian until now. Tell me about it.
Shrek: By time you get back from the cleaners, you are at your car already. So how can they tow it once you are in the car, motor running?
The cost of living for a frum consumer can widely differ from the cost of living for a secular American.
For example, New York City has one of the highest cost of living expenses in America, yet for a frum/kosher consumer it can be a considerably lower cost of living to reside in NYC than almost anywhere else in the United States. This is because kosher food and yeshiva tuition costs considerably less in New York City (Brooklyn, etc.) than almost anywhere else. This is since NYC has a tremendous kosher food industry and that is where much kosher food originates from and thus is less expensive than elsewhere. And the school tuition is lower there than elsewhere for a myriad of reasons.
Seems like everyone here is suggesting their own hometowns…
That’s why I’m tellin ‘ya to first go into one of the stores (best is Toys R Us since its closest to the water) and after spending two minutes inside go directly to the water. Do not stop at your car between leaving the store and leaving the parking lot / going to the water.
Cone on, lesschums… you gotta use a little yiddishe kup! That would be quite silly, wouldn’t it? Either you take your shopping bag with you to the water or if you really must deposit it into your car, dash back into one of the stores for two minutes before slipping out the Ocean.
(Hey, you could even do that without shopping altogerher. heheheh. But if you get a receipt for even a two-dollar product it serves as an insurance policy if there’s an issue.)
Y’know, a $250 towing fee is highway robbery far above anything reasonable and halachic.
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If you went shopping first and then to the water, how could they even know you aren’t still shopping — unless they are keeping track and following thousands of shoppers after they park, following them into the stores and following them to the water — all the while keeping track of which shopper own which one of the hundreds of cars parked in the lot?
And if they towed, you could prove it was their error by producing the shopping receipt (and denying leaving the mall area.)
takahmamash: The shechina weeps when a couple gets divorced. Please see to it that folks do not get divorced.
Blue collar crime is worse.
wow: CY simply printed the first 35 or so posts from this thread. Every month they pick one CR thread and reprint it in full or in part. (Without adding anything of their own.)
zahavasdad: Which splendid literature did you educate yourself with that resulted in the English writing prowess you display every day on this board?
I believe the seforim hakedoshim state that when Moshiach comes he will identify the real Kohanim and Leviim but that he will not identify someone who is technically a mamzer but not known to be one.
The Church made it a crime, at penalty of death, for Europeans to convert to Judaism. So, although surely there were still converts during our stay in Europe, they were by far exceptional.
Based on DNA, most of your ancestry is probably from converts (at least on the female side).
Where did you get that drivel from?
ibs: Yishmael’s descendants intermarried with the descendants of the non-Yishmaelim. So by now over 99% would be descendants of Yishmael through one line or another, from at least one side.
And, I suppose, most Europeans are not Bnei Eisev…
In any event, via intermarriage and all, surely they all are descendants through one lineage or another.
“It actually says Elah baBasar and baYayin. And, that’s talking about YomTov, not Shabbos, when it is a Chiyuv to eat meat and drink wine…
Y”D 341:1? See the Pischei Tshuva who is michalek between Shabbos and YomTov where there is a Chiyuv mitaam Simchas YomTov. And on Shabbos TishaBav and for an Avel there is a Chiyuv to eat meat, see Magen Avraham 13 in O”C 552 (and Machatzis Hashekel). And even from 341:1 I’m not sure it means that you *should* do what you want, maybe just that you could. See Tur O”C 242 where he says “Tzarich Liharbos” (and “Yesh LiAdam Lizarez Atzmo”) and Shulchan Aruch 250:2.
So sometimes there is a Chiyuv to eat meat.
Even according to the Biur Halacha, not only is there a Mitzva *if* you eat Basar, there is a Mitzva *to* eat Basar. See Mishna Brura 529:11.”
by Kozov
aurora: Thank you for sharing your very touching story.
Sam2: Bad comparison. Rav Moshe Shternbuch never said not to do kapporos with chickens. He was simply promoting treating the animals properly — and then using them.
TCG: Your vegetarian defensive logic that the animal was a living, walking, creature and therefore you cannot eat it is the antitheism of the Torah, whether you do or do not care or change.
Well said, akuperma.
What would be the possible problem of him entering the Suckah?
“I have been hearing that the quality of the girls is dropping big time”
You better marry quick, before the quality drops even further, precipitously so.
It’s comparatively much much easier to be a good girl than to be a good guy. (Think of how little it takes to be a good girl whereas how much it takes to be a good guy.) Being a good guy is so much harder than being a good girl, therefore the good guys end up getting the great girls — since a great girl is the equivalent to being a good guy, while the regular guys get good girls — since that is their equivalent, and the mediocre guys get the average girls — since that is their equivalent.
AYC: Please note this thread:
I believe it is something you were waiting for.
AYC has returned. (And can’t access her original SN since it was taken.)
And I too request mechila from everyone who I have wronged. And, of course, I grant the same.
Ksiva v’chasima tova
“Reread her original post. She found out she is jewish which is why she wants the info.”
Unless I misread aurora, I understand her original post to indicate she is assuming that her maternal great-grandmother may be Jewish based upon certain pseudo-Jewish practices she and her grandmother performed. But that she is uncertain, for a fact, that her maternal side is in fact Jewish, per Jewish law.
Perhaps this point can be further clarified.
I think many of the posters are forgetting that aurora is a gentile and thus she is not obligated to follow any Jewish law.
Reread her original post. She found out she is jewish which is why she wants the info.
Merely carrying a title of rabbi these days, isn’t saying much.
AYC: You were sorely missed. I (and many others) hope you will choose to stay.`
Uncle Moishy came up with it on his own. It is mere coincidence if someone else used something similar previously.
“I know another story where the mesader kidushin looked over the ksuba the next day and decided it needed to be redone so he had them do the kidushin again to comply with the date on the ksuba.”
Often, years later people realize there is a problem with the Kesuba. They simply write a new Kesuba. They don’t do a new Kedushin.
I like uneeq’s brother’s approach. Thanks for sharing. I believe we should all emulate that.
WB AYC!
Goq, you actually still remember what you posted so long ago?
repharim: You could probably make all the same arguments for having only one child.
Marry a Bas Talmid Chochom with good middos and Chazal advise us all will be well.
That it is a girls school.
So what *is* the reason Hashem allowed men to marry more than one wife (but not vice versa)?
7 – 10 days.
It is a constitutional violation of freedom of religion. You cannot regulate a purely religious ritual. And if you let this pass, the next step is they’ll ban it.
The matzav.